How AI Can Be Used in Medical Imaging

Abstract

For medical research, medical imaging is a visual technology and process for gen- erating images of tissues inside the human body in a non-invasive manner. It has two independent domains: medical imaging technology (MIT) and medical image processing technology (MPT). Among them, MIT applies natural physical phenomena, such as using light (optical correlation tomography (OCT)), sound (ultrasound (US)), mag- nets (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)), rays (X-ray, computed tomography (CT)), and so on. They are an essential basis for clinical analysis and judgment of treatment effect. In MPT, AI uses computer vision technology to optimize and assist in analyzing medical images, which provides more of a basis and quantitative analysis for doctors to assess patient status. Image enhancement, object detection and classification, image segmentation, image registration, image generation, and feature extraction are general MPT methods.